Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

The Keystone Club meets tomorrow
evening.
The price of silver in New York yesterday
was 95R.
There will be a regular session OF the city
council this evening.
The w. C. T. U. meet this afternoon at j
O'Clock at the Congregational parsonage.
The Pacific Express Company yesterday
| shipped eighteen bars of Alice valued at
500 ,968.
| Locomotive Brakemen will be organized
in South Butte soon.
Parties living in the lower end OF East
Park street report hearing promiscuous
shooting in that region at night.
Mr.. Cunningham, who was crushed by a
fall of waste in the Hope Sunday morning,
was more seriously hurt than at first re-
ported.
Justice D%ingevon's court yesterday against
China Joe. whom she charges with the lar
ceny of a $50 gold piece.
The German Rifle company is an estab-
lished fact, a number of gentlemen having
met and agreed upon organization. They
will form a militia company.
The Congregational church social adver-
tised to take place at Caplice Hall to-
morrow evening will be held in Renshaw
Hall. All tickets sold for Caplice Hall will
be good at Renshaw Hall.
Died-In South Butte, April IL, 1887,
Edith Guild, aged nine months, twin
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ould. The
funeral will take place IRON the family
residence at 2 p. m. to-day. Ogden and
Salt Lake papers please copy.
The Public Administrator applied in the
Probate Court yesterday for letters of ad-
ministration on the estate of c.. F. Young,
who died on Saturday morning from in
juries received while endeavoring to board
a train in motion rs reported in The
MINER.
The Board of County Commissioners
wrestled with the intricacies of the revenue
law yesterday forenoon and went out in
Surveyor Kornberg, to view several
bridges and select a site for the poor
house on the county's farm, which was
done.
Jack McWade, who. broke q window in
Savin Lisa's saloon Monday night, was
arrested and placed in the city jail but
made his escape yesterday morning. He
was accompanied in his fight by James
Wall, who was committed for vagrancy,
and Tom Palmer, arrested for drunken
ness.
The case of the Territory of Montana vs..
Guy X. Piatt for criminal libel occupied
the attention of the District Court yester-
day a%fterRoon. Conviction hinged upon
the question of authorship, and az the
prosecution could not fix the responsibility
for the publication upon the defendant the
jury. after being out about three hours re-
k,,ool - x,ordic% If ocuniffo1
The second concert of the Trebelli-M usin
Concert Company at the Grand last night
was finer ever thar the first. The artists
acquitted themselves with honor to them
selves and great satisfaction to their
hearers. and were enthusiastically encored.
They leave this morning for Anaconda and
have made an impression in Butte that
will be q pleasurable memory to all who
attended their concerts.
The Parnell Rifles held q meeting last
night at which the bid of Messrs. Cans &
is grey and is the same as that worn by the
Seventh New York with the exception OF
the trimmings. The company transacted
considerable other business. They will
meet for drill at r. nsh Nv Hall on Sunday
afternoon from 2 to s and in the evening
from 7:3O tie 10. The Uniform selected is
now on exhibition at Cans & KIeins'.
This evening the mAss-meetlDg called TO
take steps to establish apublic library and
free reading room will be held at the Grand
Opera House at 8 O'Clock. Col. J. {. G..
w. A. Clark. Col. o. c. Brad
shaw, Hon. Hiram Knowles and others
will deliver addresses. Judge Galbraith,
who had consented to make an address.
will be unable to attend. A large attend
ance should be present as the object to be
attained is one that enlists the sympathies
of all.
"The Quinn claim situated one-half
mile north of the Magma Charta and
owned by A. D. Quinn, Tom Little and
John Sloan, has q shaft SO feet deep. The
ore body is from ten to fifteen inches in
width and assays very high. The very
assay shows rock going 90 ounces.
The highest pans out rock valued at thou
The owners will -oon have hosting
works erected and will Immediately sink
200 feet. This property will undoubtedly
soon prove one of the bonanzas of Mon
as every Indication points to the fact
the lead is q true assure.
A petition to the Governor val circulated
in Dillon last week asking the pardon of
John B. Winters, who got three years in
the pen. in November. 1885, for on assault
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